Ancestry of
Tennessee Claflin
Million Dollar Princess
Who was Tennessee Claflin?
Tennessee Claflin was among the list of American socialites who married into European royalty, titled nobility, or peerage. This group of women have been referred to as "Million Dollar American Princesses" by the Smithsonian Channel's television series of the same name.
Tennessee Claflin married Francis Cook, chairman of Cook, Son and Co., drapers, and became Lady Cook just a few months after when Queen Victoria created a Cook Baronetcy of Doughty House of which her husband became the 1st Lord Cook. Since her husband was also the 1st Viscount of Monserrate in the peerage of Portugal, she also became Viscountess of Monserrate.
Tennessee Claflin, along with her sister Victoria Woodhull, became the first woman to open a Wall Street brokerage firm, Woodhull, Claflin, and Company. She was a women's suffragist and self proclaimed fortune teller who could also heal disease.
Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Tennessee Claflin
George Herbert
8th Earl of Carnarvon
Owner, Highclere Castle (aka Downton Abbey)
7th cousin 4 times removed
via Agnes
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